Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-06
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

AdE cnurcn ~ Llnguagioesa, Sicily, Ieil
without warning during services recently,
burying beneath il 100 persons, forty Of
whom we're killed and injured.
W. A. CLARKE, the postal thief arrested
last Thursday in New York, conteeses TO
having stolen q package Of $4,000 in 1881
and sent it to Charleston.
BURGLARS entered St. Pauls Episcopal
Church at Newberryport, Mass, and stole
the silver communion service and other ar
ticles of silver valued at several hundred
dollars. One piece, of great historical
value, was given to Rev. Samuel Myles by
King William and Queen Mary for the use
Of their Majesty's chapel in New England
in 1884.
Mr.. JOSEPH H. BRADLEY died at his
residence in Washington recently Of gener-
al debility, aged eighty -four years. He
had been engaged in tho conduct Of manv
of the most celebrated cases in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, including the trial Of
Surrat for conspiracy in the Lincoln assas-
sination plot.
IT is rumored that an outbreak occurred
at Rustchuck, and that the Bulgarian war
minister has been attacked. 1t is also
stated that two regiments have revolted in
Kustendel, and that the officers Of both
have been placed under arrest, but that the
men after fight with the loyal troops, fed
to the mountains.
THE Inter. State Commerce Commission
has promulgated the following rule Of pro-
ceeding: Applications made for official
action OF the Commission shall be made
by petition, which shall set forth the facts
on which they are founded, and be yer fled
by the oath Of the applicant or Of some au-
thorzed agent or attorney.
A SILVER pint pot filed with gold dol
lars is to be the stake in the contest be.
tween the yachts T.tania and Bedouin, of
Sandy Hook, in June.
The Crown Prince of Germany is i'm.
proving, Notwithstanding the exaggerated
statements apropos Of his chronic bron-
chitis. He has given bis physician much
uueasiness for some weeks past, but they
now pronounce that the danger no longer
exists.
THE fine Roman amphiheater at Pala,
in Austria, ON the Adriatic. suddenly col.
lapsed and fell into an immense chasm
which opened on the site. From the chasm
vapors are emitted.
AN unclaimed corpse lies ut the Ameri.
can Express Company's office, St. Louis,
addressed to P. D. McKcllar. 1t arrived
by express from Cincinnati. No such per.
son MS p. d. Mckcllar is known in the
cit- and the authorities are becoming sus.
picious OF sou! play.
The boiler in George Crawford's saw
mill at Cincinnati, Ohio, on the river bank,
be ow the creek, exploded. 1t was thrown
high in the ar, aud falling on shahty
boat in the river, killed Mrs. Lizzie Grant.
The steamer City Of Pekin recently ar
rived in San Francisco from Hong Kong.
via Yokohama, bringing l,l00 Chinese,
among whom the smallpox had broken
out ten days after leaving Hong Kong.
Word was sent to Quarantine Officer Nc
Allister while the vessel was yet outside
the heads, and the usual searching force Of
customs inspectors were ordered 10 awnit q
further report before boarding the vessel.
DR.. McAllister boarded the steamer outside
the heads and found three cases OF email
pox. The yellow flag was ordered raised
and the vessel placed under tho strictest
quarantine.
WILLIAM s. PIERCE, Associate Judge OF
the Court Of Common Pleas, died at his
residence in Philadelphia OF heart disease,
aged 72 years. Judge Peirce was an early
and earnest advocate Of tho emancipation
OF slaves, and was the counsel Of the
slave in nearly every fugitive case which
occurred after the fugitive slave act Of
1850